SECURITY BREACH: In a move that would...

SECURITY BREACH: In a move that would leave West Valley buses without security, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s police chief said Wednesday that she would transfer nine West Valley transit officers to the new South Bay-Norwalk Metro Rail line (B4). . . . The budget-cutting decision prompted outrage from Valley officials.

SEX GATE: Drug dealers and male prostitutes beware: The party’s over in the alley near Le Sex Shoppe on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood. . . . Two gates blocking the alley were locked to the public for the first time by police Wednesday night, although neighbors and merchants received gate keys. “We’re hoping this restores some peace to the neighborhood,” said an LAPD officer.

NAME GAME: New signs went up this week renaming the Simi Valley Freeway after Ronald Reagan (B3). But it’s not the first time an L.A. freeway was named after a U.S. President: The 90 Freeway to Marina del Rey was named the Richard M. Nixon Freeway in 1971, Caltrans said. . . . The name didn’t stick, though: In 1976--two years after Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment--the road was renamed the Marina Freeway.